Point Quotes

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'

It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

I think you have to refill the well at some point.

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.